Comment by Evrael

You can talk to Varian to disable the buff but who on their right mind would want to do that.

Comment by Dazes

King Varian Wrynn's raid-wide Icecrown buff is designed to allow less optimal guilds to experience greater content (albeit it at a slower rate than others). This will stack up to 6 times, the days of upgrades varying from 2 weeks to 2 months between each, eventually reaching a +30% stat increase of health, healing done, and damage done.

This raid-buff is more optimal to certain classes than others. In particular, it is confirmed NOT to increase the absorption effects of abilities such as Power Word: Shield.

Comment by Shihli

Just confirmed that at least as of Tuesday, March 9th, a soft reset of the instance - even if bosses have been killed - will re-enable this zone-wide buff if it was previously disabled by a member of the raid.

Comment by Pallis

They should have an acheivement for killing all bosses without the buff for hardcore players. That way everybody is happy because the hardcores still have something to show for not using the buff.

Comment by demonco

is this increased now from the patch or is it still 5% cause if it is that sucks :( ?

Comment by zapan666

Someone disabled this buff in our last raid and we can't turn it on. We had save of some bosses and the soft-reset failed.

Comment by ash1001

define soft reset = everyone must leave the instance for 30 minutes or everyone leave, click reset all instances and reenter?Sorry if that isn't a question, but either way:-----------------A soft reset is when all party members leave the instance, and then come back in. This puts people out of combat, making mobs run back to their original places.

The term "soft reset" can also mean having all party/raid members leave the instance for at least 30 minutes. This causes any trash mobs that have been killed to respawn. The most common reason to do this (deliberately) is to reset a boss fight that bugged out part way through the encounter. -----------------from http://www.wowwiki.com/Instance_reset